CK up and running

Congratulations on your ck and welcome
If you look at my avatar it’s a 1935 ckb16 on an older ca cabinet . It’s been preforming very nice for approximately 3 years now no problems.
I have roughly 1000$ in it but I wanted to have a show piece when done .  I had everything professionally painted buy some one that works on old cars , had all pieces
 rechromed  ,racks  powder  coated silver.   I totally rewired and insulated it , and new door gasket myself. 
But it’s up to you how much or little you do your self . 

I’m very glad it’s working and you started working on it. 
Just a general good cleaning we’ll help . Is the cabinet porcelain or painted ? Porcelain is easy to clean and very durable, but it is a form of glass (I found out the hard way) so 
treat it as such  . But I would try a good car polish on either finish and see how it works.    I used car polish on my porcelain parts and the black trim around the door and it worked 
great . 

You also need to replace all the wiring on the fridge, this is more involved but can be done easily enough (look in ck section how I rewired my ck ) .   The wiring gets very brittle 
and hard and starts leaking to ground on the fridge. 

Door gaskets look in the supplier section for a replacement. I used one from McMaster Car and it works very well self adhesive.